St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-29
SLAIN WHILE ASLEEP.
The Mystery Surrounding the Headless
oorpse Found at Baltimore Is
Probably Solved.
a New York Man Under Arrest, Charged
With the Murder and Suisse
qnent Butehery.
"A Negro Female Burglar Peppered
with Over 100 Shot While
at Work.
a singular and Horrible Case al
observation-disclosures Holds
His Tongue.


which Edward Unger, the sausage ped
aier at No. % Ridge street, used in
carving up his partner, August Baltz. or
BONE, after he had killed him in his sleep
III order that he might be packed up in the
trunk that turned up in Baltimore. were
Drought to police headquarters to -dav and
put away with the rest of the overwhelming
evidence against the murderer. Unger sat
sullenly in his cell all morning. refusing to
speak when spoken to. He is very closely
watched to prevent his cheating the hang
man out OF his just dues. Unger does not
waste breath denying his guilt or asserting
his innocence, but says tauntngly, and vet
with perceptible degree of anxiety behind
his APPARENT boldness, That they will
have to prove it,"
Later on Unger was arraigned at the
lonDs police court charged with murder.
lie exhibited stolid Indifference, and when
asked II he desired to make any statement,
simply Sneered and turned his head aside.
AT the request of Inspector Byrnes Unger
was relnanded to police headquarters. The
chlef element OF mystery now cliDging to
the case is the fact that the head, without
which Identification will be difficult. is
still missing. There was a report this
evening that the head had been found. and
that Unger had made confession, but
these stories are denied by the police Two
detectives We're sent to Baltimore to bring
the body here.
AFTER THE BODY'S ARRIVAL
1t Will be necessary to hold an inquest The
detectives to-day brought to police head
quarters the sofa upon which the victim of
the supposed nurderous sausage peddler is
believed to have rested when killed, The
sofa cover was filled with blood and hair,
and the blood under the microscope ap-
peared to be human blOodt A hammer was
found which had been washed, but so
badly that blood is yet upon it. Apparently
it is the weapon with which the murder
was done. From the condition OF the sofa,
the wall behind it, and the hammer the de-
tectIves reason that the murdered man was
on the lounge asleep, when a
blow was struck from behind that
sunk the head of the hammer
into the victim's head to the handle.
Pieces of wall paper with tell-tale blood
stains upon them, and which no amount of
scrubbng had sufficiently blotted out, were
also secured and taken to headquarters.
They will be examined with a microscope.
Whether or not the murdered man was
August Bohle remains to be settled by an
examination of the body. Even in the
absence of the head there are means that
will make Identification practically COM
plete if Bohle is the victim. Bohle was
about SO years of age, 5 feet inches high
and weighed $50 pounds. One of the
fingers Oh one hand, it is not known which,
was stiff. BOhle was born in one of the
Eastern provinces of Prussia. He came to
this country some years ago and travelled to
California and Oregon, where he
ENGAGED IN BUSINESS
at the mouth of the Columbia river. Last
July he came East. He then had a draft
for $1,000 from some Oregon bank,
which he exchanged for German draft, as
he was going across the ocean to settle up
some property in Germany. He was away
two months and returned in the fall, this
time with Hamburg draft for 81, 200. which
he had exchanged, and went West again.
He went to place called Paplllon, i'll
Kansas or Nebraska, but returned almost
Immediately. He deposited 81, 900 in a
savings bank here. On Dec. Is he called,
in company with a stout man. at the
butcher shop of one Geets. i'll Williams
burg, to arrange for the sale OF
six kegs of sheep castings This,
is the last definite information the de-
tectives have of his movements. Unger.
the prisoner. insists that Bohle went
to Chicago last week. Edward Unger. the
accused. came to this country when Is
years old. He was native of Madgeburg.
Germany. He followed the sea on mer
chant vessels till the war broke out. He
shipped in the navy and did duty on board
the gunboat Ella in the Potomac river.
In 1864 he obtained his discharge and re-
enlisted. From that time until 1867, when
u loft I,n hold 41n Of
mate on the transport South Carolina. He
then kept grocery store in this city on
Mott steeet, and saloons in several places.
He
MET AUGUST BOHLE
last fall. Bohle replied to an advertisement
inserted by Unger for partner. They
could not agree ON terms. He induced
Bohle to go and live with him. 1t is
thought that all the time Unger was ma
turing the scheme to get rid of Bohle and
secure his money. Unger'S wife is hope
less lunatic on Blackwell'S island and she
has been there for years. Arrangements
were made tonight to have the plumbing
of the Ridge street house examined. A
woman told the police that ON Thursday or
Friday night she met Unger carrying a
pail of something from his room to the sink
in the hallway. and that when he saw her
he turned his head. This was something
he had never done before. 1t is thought
possible that the pail may have contained
the mutilated head of the murdered man.
BALTIMORE, JAN. 2S.-Detectives
George T. Titus and j. D. Lindsay, repre-
sentng the district attorney of New York,
arrived here to night and after examining
the clothing and body found in the trunk
determined to remove them to New York.
The body was in bad condition, but it was
placed in an air-tight coffin and they left
with it at midnight. They are satisfied
that the body Is that of the missing man
Bohle. and that they have clear case
against Unger.
Murder and Suicide.
CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 2S.-When Mrs.
Cabalek murdered her three children and
then sucided the newspapers published
long accounts of the crime. A Bohemian